Weekend Tipsheet: Feb 12-13

Film

Grace, Milly, Lucy... Child Soldiers Mark Black History Month with a screening of this powerful documentary about female child soldiers in Uganda who have survived abduction, rape and years of captivity. Screens Saturday at the Royal, introduced by a rep from the International Bureau for Children's Rights, and also begins a run at the NFB on Sunday with a speaker from the IBCR and Plan Canada. See review here.

Cameraman: The Life & Work Of Jack Cardiff Craig McCall's portrait of cinematographer Cardiff gets the first of four showings at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on Sunday, to kick off a series of screenings that includes famous Cardiff-lensed works like Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes and The African Queen. See related story here.

Stage

Nixon In China Don't miss the Sunday matinee of the John Adams opera about U.S. president Richard Nixon's diplomatic visit to China in 1972. See review here.

Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo The campy and smart all-male drag ballet troupe gets to the pointe at the Winter Garden for one more show on Saturday night. See listing here.

Eternal Hydra Don't miss the final performances Saturday night and Sunday afternoon for this award-winning production of Anton Piatigorsky's brilliant script about a lost manuscript and appropriation of voice. See review here and interview with actor Liisa Repo-Martell, who plays three roles in the show, here.

Community

Victory Rally for Egypt They did it - now we celebrate with them. The people of Egypt saved the planet from one more tyrant with the power of non-violence. Come and be jubilant with Toronto's Egyptian community, the Canadian Arab Federation, the Canadian Peace Alliance and more. 2 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. nowar.ca

Canadian Boat to Gaza Canadians are organizing to send supplies to the blockaded civilians of Gaza - come hear Israeli Jeff Halper, of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, an org that non-violently resists the destruction of Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories. 7 pm. $10 sugg. Bloor Street United Church. See listing.

Tunisia, Egypt and Beyond There's going to be lots of reading of tea leaves - here's a change to check out the mideast issues as seen by socialist Lebanese writer, Gilbert Achcar, author of Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror. Sunday, 4 pm. Free. OISE. See listing.

Art

Architecture Is All Over OCADU and U of T's Daniels Faculty of Architecture co-sponsor this free one-day symposium Saturday in which architectural theorists from all over North America explore such issues as "how architectural discourse might formulate new, critical and interpretive vantages capable of reimagining the monstrous actions we release into the world as possibilities rather than pathogens" in sessions entitled The Pathology Of Architecture, The Nebulous And The Infinitesimal and Negentropic Machines. Isn't architecture jargon adorable? At TIFF Bell Lightbox. See listing.